Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/01/07/megalophobia.html
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I found the “Distance Gauge” and the final scene in the movie Melancholia to be very disturbing for all the reasons you mention.
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It is biggly. You’ve never seen anything bigglier. #makebigbigglyagain
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No one’s shooped Trump’s giant moutheyed face dwarfing the horizon yet? I’ll check back later.
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When I was little and driving around dirt roads at dusk, I’d often imagine some giant monster coming over the horizon, silhouetted against the orange of the setting sun.
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TBH, that was more or less my first thought when I read Megalophobia…
Come to think about it, I was possibly confusing it with Megalomanicphobia; I think I have developed that over the last 30 months or so.
Previously on Boing Boing:
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/r/thalassophobia is pretty good, too
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Catfish noodling always squicked me out. Never know just how big that mouth you’re sticking your forearm into is.
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I like this one…
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Self driving?
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Isn’t a “phobia” a groundless or unreasoned fear? I think that your fear may be well grounded and well reasoned.
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This makes me feel so much better now…
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Yes, you are not mad… the world is! 
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I’m no expert on human psychology or a linguist or a user of language or a human even come to think of it, but that looks more like Megalophilia.
ps: hurh hurh
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